Manhunt International

Manhunt International wears the crown as the world's first and most prestigious of all pageants and competitions for men. Its roots began in 1988 when Alex Liu, pageant director of Metromedia Singapore, decided to stage the first male model contest in Singapore announcing a “Manhunt.” Manhunt International Organisation was officially formed in 1993 by Liu, with a dream to offer the men of the world a platform to showcase their talents and skills.[1]

The first ever Manhunt International World Final was held in Australia in 1993 with 25 contestants. The pageant remained on Australia's Gold Coast when Nikos Papadakis of Greece won in 1994. The current president, Rosko Dickinson & Liu began the co-ownerships and partners of Manhunt International from 1994, until Liu's death in January 2018.[2]

Manhunt International is organized in a macho way with outdoor activities, thrilling events, public presentations, talent competitions, fun routines, and even a chance to meet and impress ladies. Contestants are judged on their runway skills, photogenic ability, personality, and physical attributes. The pageant is organized to promote new faces in the male modelling and fashion industry. The men that enter Manhunt International are also encouraged to become role models and good corporate citizens for younger people to look up to.

Today, Manhunt International is easily the World's most recognized and longest-running international male model contest. It is the worldwide search for the best male models with the highest number of contestants in 2006 and 2012 in China and Thailand respectively.

Several countries have hosted the world finals including Australia (1993, 1994, 1998, 2018), Singapore (1995, 1997, 2000), Philippines (1999, 2020, 2022), China (2001, 2002, 2006, 2016), Korea (2005, 2007, 2008, 2011), Taiwan (2010) and Thailand (2012, 2017).

The Manhunt competition is staged in two rounds, preliminary and final. During the preliminaries, the contestants are judged in Haute Couture Fashion, Swimwear, Formal Evening wear. The contestants with highest scores are named as finalists, from which the judges determine the winner and the runners up.

During the finals, several other awards are also given besides the ultimate title of Manhunt International: Best Runway Model, Mister Photogenic, Mister Friendship, Mister Personality, Mister Physique and Mister Popularity (voted by the public via social media). Since the 2005 edition, Manhunt International has also given five continental awards to the best representatives of each continent. In the 2007 edition, it was announced that the winner of Mister Popularity would automatically advance to final round and in 2022 a new category was introduced called Digital Challenge (Video) with three segments being Runway Challenge, Swimwear/Physique and Casting Challenge. Once again the overall winner of the category went straight in to the Top 16.

The 21st edition of the Manhunt International was announced by the organisation's president, Rosko Dickinson, on 18 May 2022 via the official Instagram account.[7] 40 countries delegates arrived in Manila, Philippines on 23 September with the Gala Grand Final night took place on Saturday 1 October 2022. Paul Luzineau of Netherlands crowned Lochlan “Lochie” Carey of Australia as his successor at the end of the event.

Delegates

38 contestants had been confirmed via the official Facebook and Instagram account:[9]

Country/Territory	Delegate	Age[lower-alpha 1]	Hometown	Ref.
Australia	Lochlan “Lochie” Carey	23	Melbourne	[10]
Belgium	Stef de Plecker	22		[11]
Brazil	Hendson Baltazar	31	Maracanaú	[12]
Bulgaria	Victor Rusinov	23		[13]
Canada	Samuel Albert	22	New Brunswick	[14]
Dominican Republic	Manuel Arias	18		[15]
El Salvador	Gerard Ojeda	23		[16]
Fernando de Noronha	Jefferson Andrade	29		[17]
France	Cedric Cabane	27		[18]
Germany	Ertug Muslu	23		[19]
Greece	Zaxarias Ktistakis	22	Crete	[20]
India	Rakesh Nongmaithem	32		[21]
Indonesia	Deo Nikolas	32		[22]
Japan	Kiichiro Sakamoto	28	Kuroiwa	[23]
Kazakhstan	Bakhyt Tolegenov	28		[24]
Korea	Junhyeok Chang	21		[25]
Malaysia	Edward Kong	32	Penang	[26]
Mexico	Ivan Hernandez	26		[27]
Myanmar	Thar Htet Aung	22		[28]
Nepal	Bikalp Raj Shrestha	29		[29]
Netherlands	Cas Hagman	23	Rotterdam	[30][31]
Nicaragua	Hanniel Espinoza	26	Juigalpa	[32][33]
Nigeria	Lam Chris Iroegbulam	22		[34]
Pakistan	Raheel Saleem	32		[35]
Panama	Jaime Gabriel Garcia	30		[36]
Peru	Daniel Jares	29		[37]
Philippines	Joshua Raphael De Sequera	25	Angeles, Pampanga	[38][39]
Poland	Marcin Niedzielski	25		[40]
Sierra Leone	AlHaji Masaray	24		[41]
Singapore	Darren James Kessler	32		[42]
South Africa	Marcus Max Karsten	26		[43]
Spain	Alexander Calvo	26	Malaga	[44]
Sri Lanka	Supun Maduranga	25		[45]
Thailand	Toto Phakon Rodkhumpiyaset	28		[46][47][48]
Turkey	Eren Semercii	24		[49]
USA	Elijah Van Zanten	23	Colorado	[50]
Venezuela	Jose Luis Trujillo	27		[51]
Vietnam	Trần Mạnh Kiên	29		[52][53]

• Mister International
• Mister World
• Mister Global
• Mister Supranational
• Man of the World

• Official Website
• Manhunt International on Facebook